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Bernardo Atxaga
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Bernardo Atxaga was born in Asteasu, Guipúzcoa, in 1951.
Atxaga is a poet and novelist, and writes both in Basque and in Spanish. He published his first book of poems Ziutateak (The Cities) in 1976 and two years later Etiopía,
for which he won the Critic’s Prize. Obabakoak was awarded Spain's National
Literature Prize in 1989 and has been translated into more than 20
languages.
His latest novel, The Son of the Accordionist,
was published in Basque in 2003, in Spanish and Catalan in 2004, and
Dutch in 2005, and is currently being translated into English, French,
Italian, German, Swedish, Danish, and Russian. |
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The story that began when a group of university students founded Basque Homeland and Liberty, the organization known as ETA, has finally come to an end with its announcement last week of a permanent cease-fire. 
